Tuesday, May 13, 2014

News Flash: with practically no discussion, Gov. Rick Scott and Cabinet let FPL off the hook, and put Florida ratepayers and US 1 property owners deeper onto the hook …

(PRELIMINARY POST) Gov. Rick Scott and the Cabinet just approved the FPL siting request for two new nuclear plants, pending approval by the NRC; a decision that is expected to take at least two years. In doing so, Gov. Scott and his Cabinet officers side-stepped any discussion of climate change or the placing of massive power poles down the US 1 Corridor. Ignoring pleas by the City of Miami, South Miami, and Pinecrest, the approval means the state of Florida no longer has any leverage in future siting issues for new nuclear at Turkey Point, raising the likelihood that FPL will place new power lines wherever it wants once the NRC approval is obtained. The two new nuclear plants will be operating within a service lifetime in which sea level rise could cripple the Florida economy; a fact that the Governor and Cabinet simply ignored. The deliberations by GOP decision makers took less than two minutes before a motion was made by Agriculture Secretary Adam Putnam and approved. The Governor made no comment at all. (More to come …)

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Scott figures he can carry the state without the miami-dade green vote, like it was even in play. On the up side think of all the time we saved mobilizing and going to meetings. (Not counting the time i wasted at the regional "hearing" )And the video is pretty cool.

HOW did Coral gables get out of this mess, what is the 'settlement'?"After a last minute settlement removed the City of Coral Gables from the communities fighting Florida Power & Light, Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet gave the company everything it asked for Tuesday and granted it permission to build two nuclear generating plants and 88 miles of transmission lines through the east and west sides of MiamiDadeCounty."

Does anyone really believe that any other outcome was possible? One mistake was tying the building ofpowerlines to the licensure ofTurkey Point 6 & 7 by the NRC. It should be tied to the beginning of construction of those reactors, which, at $27 Billion will never happen, but, FPL will suck more billions out of its rate payers pockets if a license to build is issued by the NRC. As usual, thepoliticians involved in this aredilettantes and do not really understand the nitty gritty of the science and NRC based shinanigans of FPL. No one in the hearing mentioned the 97th Avenue route which could take the extra power without turning a shovel. The realenemy is the grid; it is 1885 technology from Thomas Edison. Putting power on our homes and businesses is 21st Century technology. It will happen with orwithout FPL and Tallahassee and demand from the grid will keep dropping Thenwe will have 120 foot towers up US1to connect my power to my neighbor; talk about overkill. This state, and county, are out of control.

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Complete this sentence: South Florida really needs a..."Regional plan for controlled growth (before it becomes a concrete jungle similar to Houston), and a completely new set of elected officials that make decisions based on what's good for the future of South Florida instead of what's good for their wallets.